I’ve been using Surpass Hosting since around August 2004. I’ve gone through shared accounts, reseller accounts, and multiple dedicated servers. I’ve been through a lot with this company but overall it’s been an awesome experience.

I started with a simple shared account to host a personal website, but quickly moved into a reseller account so that I could host as many websites as I wanted. I have to say that Surpass Hosting is really what brought me to the internet. I’d been using it like every other person, but once I started making websites everything just exploded.

Most of the websites that I’ve hosted are personal sites: blogs, crazy ideas that I had but never really made them happen, random websites that only I would get. I’ve done a few business sites for other people, and even ran a dedicated server for my work, where we hosted our city’s website and local chamber of commerce.

With Surpass, the support has usually been great. I’ve had a couple of oddities, but every problem I’ve ever had (which were usually created by me) has been solved to my satisfaction in a timely manner. The prices are great for the support and service you receive. Their servers are not oversold like a bunch of other hosts that I’ve used. They place a reasonable amount of clients on their super fast servers, and move people off if the server gets overloaded.

My favorite thing about Surpass Hosting is the community. Surmunity is the awesomest thing that was ever invented. Many of the staff are active in the community, and you can go there for help with any sort of problem. Anything from spam email to tacos, Surmunity is there for you. I’ve been sent an Xbox 360 and sent to Orlando to check out the data center because Surmunity is filled with a bunch of great people.

Of course there are always things in any company that can be improved. One thing I would like to see improved is support tickets. Sometimes all of the people responding to tickets don’t read the entire ticket, causing a delay when they ask for something that was already provided. How the tickets are ordered and run is weird as well (limitation of the software). It would be nice to see a custom written help desk, tailored to exactly what they need. If they integrated their new service status that would be great as well in helping users find out if a server is down, or maybe if their IP was just blocked.

So overall: Surpass rocks, and I expect to continue seeing awesome things out of them. I know they will continue to work on any problems there might be and always try to make the service better. This review is entirely mine, and you’ll see no affiliate codes or anything similar that you might find elsewhere and for other hosts. This was written because I’ve had a great experience.

From this day, random people who comment on dewknight.com have the chance to win 50 Entrecard Credits! Each couple of days I will go through my comments on all posts and randomly give some people 50 EC’s just as a thanks for commenting on my blog.

Make sure you have your blog as your url when commenting so that I can find you and give you credits!

Also it’s not for commenting on this post, but overall on my blog. Go ahead and comment on this one, but most people who only comment on this post won’t get credits.

DewKnight.com has a new theme! I felt it was time for change since the old theme had a few weird errors and design flaws in it. This new theme is Illacrimo by Design Disease.

What do you all think about it? Should I keep it? Go back to the old one? Get a completely different theme? Here’s the old design:

Don’t forget to enter the Mountain Dew / Entrecard contest! All you’ve gotta do is take a picture of a Mountain Dew.

Entrecard, the revolutionary blog to blog advertising network has partnered with SezWho to reward users for flooding blogs across the internet with quality, well though comments.

Entrecard has chosen to team up with SezWho to give you credits for your comments. All you have to do is register for SezWho from your dashboard, install SezWho on your blog using the provided Wordpress plugin or paste some code in for Blogger. Next you start commenting, rating comments, and earning credits.

You can earn up to 150 credits per day for quality comments on blogs with Entrecard and Sezwho installed. The credits are on a scale of 10, depending on the quality of your comment (which is determined by other users that rate your comment). This is great for people looking for more credits and more comments. This is absolutely full of awesome for those looking for better quality comments. There is going to be a huge flood of comments all around the internet. There is no incentive to leave comments that suck because you won’t get credit for them.

Partnering with SezWho is a genius move by EntreCard. Getting a network of 14,000 bloggers together commenting on blogs every day is really going to help revive the blogosphere. I can’t wait to see the burst of traffic that thousands of blogs start receiving because of this. This is going to cause the quality of blogs to increase substantially. Graham over at Entrecard has written an amazing post on the Entrecard Blog about this partnership, and how to use it effectively.

Here’s a new series for you: How to make your blog not suck.

First up in the series is plugins. You can easily make your blog not suck and your readers not hate you by getting rid of all of those hundreds of plugins, badges, images, etc all in your sidebar and all around your blog. You should have a billion little things making the page really long and slowing down the load time. When you have a lot of junk in there it slows down browsers and just makes people get angry at you. Plus, it makes your blog suck.

Think about what value these plugins and images offer, and weight that against how much people hate you for them.